Covid 19, Take Two

               4-7-20 As more information builds for the Corona Virus crisis here are a few broad statements.

  1. As information on race and location develop it becomes apparent that this goes beyond the virus itself, and is really an indictment of the broad inequality in both wealth and healthcare that persists in the US. The poor who tend strongly to have less access to good health environments make up the majority of the COVID 19 cases and deaths.
  2. Secondly, it appears that an anti-body test will start to create a database of people who have had COVID 19 and thus would be immune to it. These immune people would be the safest bet to work in essential health and food service environments.
  3. Researchers are saying that anti-bodies from one person can be used to vaccinate around 4 other people to make them immune. The problem, based on limited anti-body testing is that less than 5 percent, maybe as low as 2 percent of the general population tested, show that they have had COVID 19. Extrapolating from that info, at the moment only maybe 8 to 10 % of the total population could be immunized at this moment.
  4. How this plays out will be really a function of the equation that pits the goals of the few, the maybe 30 percent that are tied to the wealthy in the Whitehouse and Wall Street,  versus the many, in the bottom 70 percent of the population.  Will Health beat out Wealth, or vice versa?
  5. Issues that jump to the front are: a) social distancing is working; b) but going back to an open environment and only having 2 percent of the population immune, will open the general population to an even bigger crisis down the road; c) so does the country have the patience to wait to collect enough antibodies by multiple collections from the immune?

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